What could have ended a 21 year blacklisting of LGBTQ art in a major museum context has become the target read more…
Wanda Ewing: Pin-ups and Wallflowers
While preparing for her seventh group show in 2010, Wanda Ewing was kind enough to make time for conversation with read more…
Influential Margins: LGBTQ Artists in The American Tradition of Portraiture
Two months after Robert Mapplethorpe’s death in 1989, Washington D.C.’s Corcoran Gallery of Art cancelled a solo show of his read more…
Blood and Fire: Ana Mendieta
Ana Mendieta’s story is one in which her tragically short life is constantly revisited through works created during a prolific read more…
Edgings: The work of Crystal Gregory
Crystal Gregory loves the materiality of pattern.
Heroes of Birth: In Perpetual Vibrancy with Pipilotti Rist
For her third solo show at Luhring Augustine, titled Heroes of Birth, the ever humorous and consistently astute Pipilotti Rist read more…
Breedings: Photographs by iO Tillett Wright
I was still luxuriating in post-yoga endorphins when my painter friend told me he needed to take a break.
Body As Charged Canvas
Opening the Fall 2010 season with a dynamic group show, titled Mine, Invisible Exports features video and photograp
Proud to Serve
Jo Ann Santangelo began “Proud to Serve” in January 2009, while studying at The International Center of Photography in Manhattan.
The Kids Are All Right: Where Moms Are A Couple, By Any Other Name
Because interaction can’t exist in a vacuum, it seems fair to say human activity is defined by relationship. To self, read more…
Sculpting Beauty
Extremity was inaugurated as a currency of female beauty so long ago, constantly stirring dialogues of body modification.
Kiki Smith at the Brooklyn Museum
When I walked into Kiki Smith’s Lodestar show at The Pace Gallery on 22nd Street, I immediately connected the work read more…
EUPHORIC FEMME: Teresa Ascencao
Canadian artist Teresa Ascencao has created a collaborative platform for an on-going exploration of women’s sexuality.
Night After Night, Photographer Jo Ann Santangelo
The background is dark, gritty and in constant shift. But the portraits gaze back in warmth and openness.